I have no idea whether the Rotting Cryptkeeper of Westboro Baptist “Church” will show up to defile the celebration of the life of Elizabeth Edwards, but no doubt Shirley Phelps-Roper will bring her self-styled hate along with the spawn of Fred to Raleigh on Saturday. (News & Observer):

Westboro Baptist Church, a group with a history of staging protests at funerals and issuing anti-gay statements, is planning to picket the Saturday funeral of Elizabeth Edwards.

The group said it will picket outside Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh from 12:15 until 1 p.m. when the funeral is scheduled to begin.

The purported reason for the Westboro Klan’s selection of the Edwards funeral, according to its web site (no, I’m not linking), which says “GOD HATES ELIZABETH EDWARDS!” claims she allegedly “spent her life in defiance and disobedience to God” and “Flee her example.”

Instead of focusing on those haters, watch what local residents had to say about the passing of Elizabeth Edwards…

I have an idea…When next someone in the Phelps Klan dies, every non-Phelpsian in the country should march on the funeral.
I’m sure that the surviving cryptkeepers won’t ‘get it’, but America needs a major catharsis.

I already have the signs printedI have every intention of demonstrating at their funerals, with amplified megaphone and plenty of “GOD HATES PHELPS” and “FRED IN HELL, BURNING IN EVERLASTING TORMENT, HALLELUYA!”
Let them try to sue me: they are the shit-stains who set this precedent, and I fully intend to use it.

Fred’s 81…And he’s starting to look a bit tired and too much like the guy in Poltergeist 2http://cheezburger.com/View/29…
We’ll see what happens when the time comes. Hopefully it will be more of a party/celebration thing than a protest. They bring the hate to everything, but in this case (and I never said anything like this about anyone before) the world will be a better place without him in it. Why not celebrate that?

Phelp’s daughters are vicious at suing folks they inciteThe best policy might be to immitate the counter protestors at Matthew Shepard’s funeral keep your bodies between this klan of filth and the grieving family. These Phelp’s maggots make dozens of BOGUS threats they never follow up on, but I’d hate to see them add even a touch more sadness to Elizabeth’s kids and friends.

While Elizabeth Edwards’ family has my sympathyeveryone outside of them that’s whining about this can go tie themselves to a lightning rod. How many of them could be bothered to raise an eyebrow all the times this kind of BS happened at our funerals?

Million person march?TechBear, why don’t we recruit 1 million people to protest at a Phelps family member’s funeral with picket signs just like yours?
Or, more deliciously, we could have a same-sex kiss-in in front of the church when old Fred kicks off. Heck, I’ll bet even doing that at Mrs Edwards’ funeral this weekend would be drive the WBC away from that event (although it would be pretty classless on our part towards a woman who deserves respect).

WBC Hate is simply your tax dollars and mine at workjSo when are we gonna get rid of ALL tax deductions for churches? ALL churches would still have ALL their constitutional rights to freedom to be bible bigots and preach hate. It’s just that we taxpayers won’t be supporting them.